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Vermont Yankee
retired nuke:
Well,
VY is offline
http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_27220932/vermont-yankee-nuclear-power-station-completes-final-operating
End of the best plant I've ever worked
:(
Laundry Man:
Must have been strange going in this morning knowing it will never be restarted. Bobby still there?
LM
Bonds 25:
:'(
What is wrong with this country >:(
Radwraith:
--- Quote from: Bonds 25 on Jan 02, 2015, 01:17 --- :'(
What is wrong with this country >:(
--- End quote ---
The fact that Schumlin got reelected should tell you everything you need to know about Vermont! [BH] [oops] [lies] [train]
HydroDave63:
Rates will keep going up...
http://www.publicpower.org/Media/daily/ArticleDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=43146&sthash.GdwBtm20.mjjo
Latest auction results show New England capacity market is not working, says municipal utility official
From the February 11, 2015 issue of Public Power Daily
By Jeannine Anderson
News Editor
Electricity consumers in New England are being hurt by the centralized capacity market being run by ISO New England, the head of Kennebunk Light and Power in Maine said Feb. 9.
The latest auction – Forward Capacity Auction 9, which began on Feb. 2 – will increase the region’s costs by $1 billion, said Sharon Staz, general manager and treasurer of Kennebunk Light and Power, and former chair of the Northeast Public Power Association’s Legislative Committee.
“Consumers we serve are alarmingly concerned about the increasing costs of the ISO New England capacity markets,” Staz said in her Feb. 9 statement. “The region saw a 300 percent cost increase in last year’s capacity auction [Forward Capacity Auction 8], and this week’s auction price will increase regional costs by $1 billion more.”
These capacity costs “translate to real dollars on our customers’ utility bills, which are already 48 percent higher in New England than any other part of the country,” Staz explained.
“To put this in context: with capacity costs at $4 billion, New England ratepayers are paying the equivalent of running four Nuclear Regulatory Commissions,” she said. “Meanwhile, the market has little to show for these cost increases, and some areas of the region won’t even meet needed demand.”
“Some may say that this market is working, but we do not believe it is working for consumers,” Staz concluded.
On Jan. 29, more than a dozen members of Congress from New England wrote to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), asking it to re-examine the results of ISO New England’s Forward Capacity Auction 8, which took place a year ago.
“We are writing to reiterate our concerns regarding electricity prices in the New England region,” said the lawmakers. “The continued increase of rates across the New England region is alarming.”
“Further, with Forward Capacity Auction 9 scheduled to take place on Feb. 2, 2015, we ask that the Commission closely monitor the upcoming auction and consider the impact of rate prices on consumers in deciding whether to certify the results later this year,” they added.
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